New Type of Treatment for Unique Hearing Issue
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Christa Bird, treated for pulsatile tinnitus
• Christa experienced spurts of a whooshing sound in her ear that got worse when her heartbeat went up.
• This condition is called pulsatile tinnitus and it is a rare form of tinnitus.
• She was hearing the noise in spurts. It wasn’t a constant whooshing, but it was just little bits that she was hearing all the time that got worse if her heartbeat went up.
• For Christa, the new procedure was a simple experience for her and it alleviated the noise she was hearing.
• She recommends to others that you really need to be an advocate for your own health. She was so glad to be connected with the right doctors and to be plugged in with such special people at the Health System.
Lavina Cox, treated for pulsatile tinnitus
• Lavina was experiencing a higher pitched and then a swishing sound in both ears.
• It was maddening because it affected her concentration and sleep.
• She had the procedure, left the hospital on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and was able to cook dinner on Thursday.
• The procedure has changed her life.
• She was happy to have the “A team” of doctors and was so happy with how Dr. Eversole takes great care of the whole person and how his team did a phenomenal job.
Dr. Koji Ebersole, director, endovascular neurosurgery, The University of Kansas Health System
• There is a new, minimally invasive treatment that helps alleviate this condition.
• The procedure is called venous sinus stenting. The vein that gets narrowed is a venous sinus, a large outlet vein from the skull draining into the neck. We are stenting that sinus open to eliminate the tinnitus.
• The narrowing of this vein is the most common cause. The question is what causes the narrowing of the vein and that part is not yet understood.
• Pulsatile tinnitus is the most uncommon form of tinnitus. Tinnitus otherwise is a very common symptom that most patients experience as an annoyance.
• Tinnitus is a sensation that you are hearing in your ear and nobody else hears -- ringing is a common description.
• A buzzing or whooshing pulsatile tinnitus is when those sensations are in time with your heartbeat. That is a different beast.
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What kind of specialist would I ask to see for this, ENT or Neurologist?
Yeah… imagine having a non stop ultrasound-sound in your head … it’s maddening. CBT can only do so much and some of us have narrowing in places that are less than ideal, with no bone -or thinning bones -behind the ear. Now, with that in mind, imagine you’re on the autism spectrum with noise sensitivities and cPTSD. 👏 MAD 👏 DEN 👏 ING 👏.
Please keep finding appropriate solutions for this. Not only are we not hearing half the time, but we are largely going unheard in this endeavor and experience. The studies so far also indicate how much this affects females disproportionately.
Q: Aside from the ballooning, coils, and mesh, what other solutions are being considered? Are the products being used (stent, etc) excessive in the their capabilities? I have heard that the mesh is too strong for certain vessels-being told that it would potentially cause more harm than good.
Rock chalk!
I have tinnitus and both of my ears ring 24/7 and it has been her numerous of years and it's only getting worse because when we headaches and mobility to think properly and move properly to get a lot of things. I need help with this as my doctor will not refer me to anyone to get this looked at driving me nuts
See a different doctor. I had an ENT that said my ears are clear but still wanted me to use netti pot every day for a month. Those things make me gag real bad so that’s a no go. I’m hoping my new neurologist can help. Good luck to you.
9:55 onwards is the action to fix. Interesting application of existing tech into a very tricky area.